Best Buy Corporate Campus

Richfield, MN

The main attribute Opus brought to the table was big company experience, with small company relationships. Opus is able, understands the needs of a retailer and goes to the necessary lengths to deliver on time.

Pat MatreVP of Real EstateBest Buy

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If Opus commits to undertake the project, their broad experience will clearly qualify them to engage it professionally. You can count on Opus to finish the project. And they will finish it well, finish it timely and finish it on or under budget.

Story

With extensive experience in office space development, the Opus team created a corporate headquarters campus for Best Buy that united and relocated Best Buy corporate employees who were spread across multiple suburbs into a single location.

The campus consists of four buildings developed simultaneously, including child care and other retail services for Best Buy’s 7,500 employees.

One unique design element of the Best Buy Campus is the 215,000-square-foot, two-level connector called the Hub. The design intent was to create an environment that is "fun, flexible and productive, while acting as a catalyst for learning, collaboration, community and creative solutions."

The main 1,000-foot long level of the Hub links the four office towers and the 6,700 car, two million square foot, five-level parking ramp. The Hub features:

a full-service cafeteria,

two large auditoriums,

a bank,

Caribou Coffee,

a convenience store,

Minute Clinic,

a full-service fitness center and

multi-user conference rooms.

Drawing on its deep real estate development experience, Opus negotiated a significant tax increment financing package for the project and also coordinated site acquisition. As a redevelopment of an aging commercial and residential area, the project involved complex negotiations with approximately 90 separate land owners.